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It's very dangerous especially in France due to old ordinance. Google magnet fishing
by murkle 5y ago
It's very dangerous especially in France due to old ordinance. Google magnet fishing
- crackercrews 5y ago"Ordinance" is legislation. "Ordnance" is the explosive stuff. Old ordinance can also be troublesome, but is rarely deadly.
- abrowne 5y agoAt least in jurisdictions that have abolished capital punishment.
- scrollaway 5y agoI'm not GP but as a non-native speaker, thanks for the tip! I never realized :)
- jkubicek 5y agoI'm a native english speaker, and I also never realized those were two different words.
- dcminter 5y agoThe classic usage for Brits is the 'ordnance survey' (maps) which originate in the need for accurate maps when calculating angles for artillery! Also, while I'm a native speaker who does know this one I think it's obscure enough that most don't. In fact I suspect it's obscure enough that the mis-spelling will replace it eventually anyway. Incidentally the products of magnet fishing often turn up on Reddit's /r/whatisthisthing sub. You also see quite a few munitions. Often enough, in fact, that they have a munitions bot that warns people to contact the authorities (and not, e.g., twist the end to see if it comes off...)
- tshaddox 5y agoAlso, at least in American English, “ordinance” is not a mass noun. An ordinance is a piece of legislation. So I would say “an old ordinance can also be troublesome…”
- KMag 5y agoAhh, a fellow soul feeling the burden of knowing the difference between mass and count nouns.
- celticninja 5y agoAnd just to confuse things a little more we have in the UK: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Which is not a survey of explosive devices.
- leoedin 5y agoBut it is (or was, originally, when it was named) a survey for directing military ordnance.
- celticninja 5y agoDirecting military ordnance in the 1700s.
- nicoburns 5y agoHuh, and I've been pronouncing that ordinance. I guess those two words are pretty similar.
- verst 5y agoSame in Germany. I never considered magnet fishing growing up there and now I remember why: it was super common for WW2 explosives to be found that didn't explode on impact but had corroded over time.